I really like how you set up your gig for your private little Midjourney. Use cases are the most important in all technology. I think about the blockchain craze. At the end of it, only the true use cases survive. The trend chasers and shallow perceptions eventually get left on the wayside. I think about the metaverse. Same thing.
There is a very interesting divide in how people use AI to create things. The prevailing narrative focuses on a (large, to be fair) group of people who essentially use AI as a megaphone for their lack of care. It can be used by people as a megaphone to amplify the existence of care as well though. If you care deeply about making something, such as a tool to solve a problem or to make people happy, you can do really great things that people will appreciate. If you simply pipeline prompts from your head, to AI, to other people, without iterating on the output of the AI, you will annoy people with how loudly you don't care. That's slop, no matter how good AI gets.
I agree. Most of the time, the loud use cases are about coolness, humor and something crass. While I feel that AI at the end of it all is an ugly hack that needs more than just a bit of refining, the possible life-changing use cases are worth persevering for.
I really like how you set up your gig for your private little Midjourney. Use cases are the most important in all technology. I think about the blockchain craze. At the end of it, only the true use cases survive. The trend chasers and shallow perceptions eventually get left on the wayside. I think about the metaverse. Same thing.
There is a very interesting divide in how people use AI to create things. The prevailing narrative focuses on a (large, to be fair) group of people who essentially use AI as a megaphone for their lack of care. It can be used by people as a megaphone to amplify the existence of care as well though. If you care deeply about making something, such as a tool to solve a problem or to make people happy, you can do really great things that people will appreciate. If you simply pipeline prompts from your head, to AI, to other people, without iterating on the output of the AI, you will annoy people with how loudly you don't care. That's slop, no matter how good AI gets.
I agree. Most of the time, the loud use cases are about coolness, humor and something crass. While I feel that AI at the end of it all is an ugly hack that needs more than just a bit of refining, the possible life-changing use cases are worth persevering for.